Golden Globes Awards: Gosh, It Only Takes 17 Votes to Win!

I do not understand all the fuss about award shows, but the Golden Globes are the worst (“All’s Fair in ‘Love’ and War,” by Robert W. Welkos and Susan King, Jan. 25). Millions of dollars are spent presenting, receiving and televising these awards. Then more money is spent advertising the winners.

The awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., an association of 82 members. Eighty-two! Breaking that down to a category with five nominees, an award could be “won” with 17(!!) votes. But even if the awardee got all 82 votes, who cares?

Who could possibly care what 82 people think? We have 100 people in the Senate and we don’t care what they think. So why the hoopla for 82 foreign press writers?

I don’t get it!

HOWARD WILCZYNSKI

Canyon Country

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The Golden Globe Award ceremony was wonderful as always, but I wish to comment on some winners who wore the bow tie in a manner insulting to the tux.

I saw some bent “waiter’s” bow ties, some open collars squished by overtightening the tie strap, and unfortunately many of the famous winners wore “waiter’s/busboy’s” bow ties, the long and skinny ones, instead of a “gentleman’s” bow tie or an elegant “butterfly” bow tie. It shattered my image of some bigwigs who came up to the stage.

Then came Sean Connery, dressed in a very traditional open vest English tuxedo with a gentleman’s bow tie tucked under a “tie collar” instead of an open collar to give a casual touch in this top-class gathering. If the anti-traditional Americans wish to wear a bow tie, learn it from a Brit.

How do I know all about bow ties? As a boy magician in India some 60 years ago at the age of 14, I learned how to dress in a tux.

ASHOK SARKAR

Vancouver, Canada